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Date the subsidiary of the limited liability company (LLC) or limited partnership (LP) was formed, in CCYY-MM-DD format.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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The number of units or percentage investment held in the subsidiary by the limited liability company or limited partnership.

Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 946
-SubTopic 320
-Section S99
-Paragraph 9
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=50485924&loc=d3e611443-123010

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State in which the subsidiary of the limited liability company or limited partnership was organized.

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